mrbenja0618

ben_danger said:

The trailers alone were a work of art!

 No kidding. Unfortunately ID told me they got pulled for copyright junk.

Hey TJ, on a serious note, do you still have those project files?

tjdavis1138 said:

LOL

 Yeah, I know. 

I'd like to see a clip with the Black Sunday track.

So, when is this coming out?.....................................................................................................................................................=(

AntcuFaalb said:

This will probably be put into the Worst Edit Ideas thread, but whatever.

Did Harrison Ford play in enough pre-ANH titles for us to rotoscope him into a Han Solo backstory? We'd have to do it frame-by-frame, of course, and we'd have to change his costume...

Thank you.

13las said:

TV's Frink said

 I Think I'm a Clone Now.

 I'll leave the ridiculousness to the experts:

TV's Frink and George Lucas ;-)

 Hey! Don't talk about Frink like that!

(See what I did there?)

sonofjones said:

Huh, that actually seems to be a perfect representation of what SW:R is all about. It also reminds me of a quote by Homer Simpson:

"You like ice cream don't you? Well, don't you like ice cream even better when it's toped with chocolate, and whipped cream, and chopped nuts, oh and those crumbled up cookie things they put on top?

"Mmmm... Crumbled up cookie things..."

 Slow down! I haven't created the "crumbled up cookie things: Revisited" thread.

TV's Frink said:

asterisk8 said:

mrbenja0618 said:

muddyknees2000 said:

Allow me to clarify that. The SHOOTING of the new canyon is complete. Integrating it into the film is still ongoing.

 Allow ME to clarify that the COOKING of the noodles is complete. 
Integrating it into the spaghetti sauce is still ongoing.

I don't have time to walk all the way downstairs to the kitchen, can someone tell me how soon we might expect dinner to be released?

 It will be served when it's done.

 Since you have all been patient, I have comparison pictures.

First the original Spaghetti (1977):

Spaghetti Revisited:

Soon I'll have pics of Spaghetti Revisited with green lasers.

(I'm really excited about ESB:REVISITED btw.)

muddyknees2000 said:

Allow me to clarify that. The SHOOTING of the new canyon is complete. Integrating it into the film is still ongoing.

 Allow ME to clarify that the COOKING of the noodles is complete. 
Integrating it into the spaghetti sauce is still ongoing.

brash_stryker said:

timdiggerm said:

AntcuFaalb said:

ROTJ:R Question: Has Ady considered putting Jabba's palace on a different planet?

The following post gave me this idea: http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/something-I-always-wondered-about-the-PT/post/686800/#TopicPost686800

 You took the words out of my hands.

Although there is the problem of Lando's line at the end of ESB about the rendevouz point on....Tatooine.

The name alone wouldn't matter as the name "Tatooine" is never said in ANH (as far as I know). The only reason anyone would know the name of the planet, pre ROTJ at least, would've been reading it somewhere (like how everyone knows the word ewok despite it never being said by anyone). 

Making "Tatooine" an entirely new planet is a great idea. I hate how the canonical Tatooine became so overemphasised come the prequels as some sort of central location for everything of galactic and spiritual importance to occur on. Just like how Anakin was overemphasised as the chosen one - and why did he have to be from Tatooine too? As someone said, George wanted to reuse existing ideas and familar stuff, so as a result he shrunk the universe. Part of the charm of ANH was that this backwater dust planet was so insignificant in current events that we never even learnt its name. Maybe it didn't even HAVE a name.

In terms of executing this idea, the only clear acknowledgement that the desert planet in ROTJ is the same desert planet as in ANH is Luke saying to Han he used to live there, and Han replying that he's going to die there. This could be edited out somehow.

 I would be interested in seeing how that could play out.

However, I actually like that line in ROTJ. =)  But sacrifices must be made for the greater good.

Yeah, I think we may be at that stage where Ady has locked in all ideas for this thing. I could be wrong, but I feel he may be seeing the finish line.

Your idea is pretty strong I think. By using the re-arrangement it helps you preserve most of the runtime.

I would like you to maybe reconsider removing Padme's queenship. In fact, I thin she should remain the Queen in AOTC. Let me explain myself.

In Ep. 4 we meet PRINCESS Leia. This has been a problem in these movies. Why is a Princess? Because of this I offer this possible work-around. Let Padme maintain her Queen status in all the movies. But also (and this might be harder) we need to find a way to make Bail Organa a King of something... Some sort of royalty instead of a Senator. That would explain how Leia becomes a Princess. Again, I'm not sure how we make Bail a king, but I would love for someone to figure it out.

Regardless, your idea is a great improvement on the original. Good luck on working with the most problematic Star Wars film.

Darth Maul looking for the Jedi hopeful in case that wasn't clear.

I was doing something similar. Actually have some of it still saved in a premiere project. I had the film start during the pod race. The opening crawl suggested that Qui-Gon was there looking for a Jedi hopeful, but at the same time you had Darth Maul looking for him. Kinda gave it a Terminator opening.

My whole idea was to renumber and completely rework all 6 films into what may have been 3 to 4 films.

kane1138 said:

That was a light-hearted comment.  Hence the smileyface.

 Take that crap to the My Little Pony forums jack-ass! ;)

mrbenja0618 said:

 Hey gang. I used to be involved in this thread before, but had to exit because it got a bit heated at times. My goal when explaining my faith is simply to give my perspective that yes, I believe to be true.

I am what you would call a Christian, but honestly in this day in age I'm not sure it means what it is supposed to mean. 

Most have been handling the faith so poorly that there are countries that when referring to "Christians" they simply mean "Americans"..... Clearly we have dropped the ball.

Ric, I'm going to respond to you in the best manner I can. I don't do it to debate or to win an argument, but to just give you a perspective to consider. I will not have all the answers, and will never have all the answers. No one else will either. 

You  said: If you're gonna be good, do it for the sake of it, not for some sort of reward you're going to get at the pearly gates

I agree with you. We should never do anything to get  a reward, and that is not what true Christianity is about. 

Jesus said this in the book of Matthew, chapter 6:

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people, to be seen by them. Otherwise, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward! But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

So, yes there is reward for being righteous or being good. BUT, only if you do it with the mindset of not seeking reward. By doing it just to be righteous/good. God wants us to choose to be righteous because we desire to be righteous.

And on the point of no evidence of a place outside of our own. You're not wrong, or at least I have not experienced the evidence for myself yet. Some have claimed to have seen it. I can't confirm it, it's not my experience. All I can give you is my experience, and that is God has always been correct in my life, when I properly walked the path, the things God led me to believe would happen did in fact happen. That's how faith works.  I see that God is good (and I use that term in non-human measurements) and tells the truth, so I trust the things I can't see yet. I haven't been to the grand canyon, but I know honest friends who have seen it and say it's beautiful, and I can trust that its there because they say so. Because I know them to be trustworthy. Of course, someone will say I'm ridiculous and that there are copious amounts of evidence for the grand canyon, but I could argue that for me the evidence isn't enough. What evidence would you have for me? A rock? I don't know it came from there. A photo with you, your wife and kids posing before it? Nah, it could be shopped. Again, you would say I'm ridiculous, but I'm not being ridiculous, I'm just in this case ignorant of truth, because we also live in an age where lies are copious, and fabrication is much easier. But maybe YOU have seen the evidence and my refusal to believe in the grand canyon is incredibly maddening to you? It's still not ridiculous if my life situation has been that of anti-exposure, and a lack of experience. My long-winded point is, we both have different sets of experiences. Those experiences have shaped how we view things. So, with that I ask, do you know everything? I don't. So, because I know I don't know everything, I have to go by what I do know, and that has been dictated by my own personal set of experiences on my journey. My experiences have dictated that God is perfect, and has been right so far in my life. So, therefore in my life all my road signs point to a place I can't see yet. But I know it's there because someone I trust told me so. Again, that's faith, but because of the source, I know that I can have that faith in God.

I don't know everything, but I try to trust the one I believe does.

You don't know everything either. I could even ask if you know half of everything, and you would probably tell me no. You couldn't know half of everything, just like I couldn't. But let's just say for the sake of discussion that you do know half of everything. But, alas, you still do not know everything, so I ask you. Is it possible that this Jesus/God/Heaven thing could exist on the other half of the stuff you haven't learned yet?

Again, not arguing. Just giving a new perspective, and I'm up for respectable conversations. I just have to exit when people get rude/angry or start barking back and forth. I've been through that, and it does no one any good. Not saying you planned on doing that. But that it has happened to me on this thread. =)

I know you said more in your original post, but I need to go milk the cat or something. =)

 And after writing that long post I realized I referenced the wrong person. Sorry Ric. This is actually for you Leonardo. Sorry guys. Got my wires crossed. :/

 Hey gang. I used to be involved in this thread before, but had to exit because it got a bit heated at times. My goal when explaining my faith is simply to give my perspective that yes, I believe to be true.

I am what you would call a Christian, but honestly in this day in age I'm not sure it means what it is supposed to mean. 

Most have been handling the faith so poorly that there are countries that when referring to "Christians" they simply mean "Americans"..... Clearly we have dropped the ball.

Ric, I'm going to respond to you in the best manner I can. I don't do it to debate or to win an argument, but to just give you a perspective to consider. I will not have all the answers, and will never have all the answers. No one else will either. 

You  said: If you're gonna be good, do it for the sake of it, not for some sort of reward you're going to get at the pearly gates

I agree with you. We should never do anything to get  a reward, and that is not what true Christianity is about. 

Jesus said this in the book of Matthew, chapter 6:

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people, to be seen by them. Otherwise, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward! But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

So, yes there is reward for being righteous or being good. BUT, only if you do it with the mindset of not seeking reward. By doing it just to be righteous/good. God wants us to choose to be righteous because we desire to be righteous.

And on the point of no evidence of a place outside of our own. You're not wrong, or at least I have not experienced the evidence for myself yet. Some have claimed to have seen it. I can't confirm it, it's not my experience. All I can give you is my experience, and that is God has always been correct in my life, when I properly walked the path, the things God led me to believe would happen did in fact happen. That's how faith works.  I see that God is good (and I use that term in non-human measurements) and tells the truth, so I trust the things I can't see yet. I haven't been to the grand canyon, but I know honest friends who have seen it and say it's beautiful, and I can trust that its there because they say so. Because I know them to be trustworthy. Of course, someone will say I'm ridiculous and that there are copious amounts of evidence for the grand canyon, but I could argue that for me the evidence isn't enough. What evidence would you have for me? A rock? I don't know it came from there. A photo with you, your wife and kids posing before it? Nah, it could be shopped. Again, you would say I'm ridiculous, but I'm not being ridiculous, I'm just in this case ignorant of truth, because we also live in an age where lies are copious, and fabrication is much easier. But maybe YOU have seen the evidence and my refusal to believe in the grand canyon is incredibly maddening to you? It's still not ridiculous if my life situation has been that of anti-exposure, and a lack of experience. My long-winded point is, we both have different sets of experiences. Those experiences have shaped how we view things. So, with that I ask, do you know everything? I don't. So, because I know I don't know everything, I have to go by what I do know, and that has been dictated by my own personal set of experiences on my journey. My experiences have dictated that God is perfect, and has been right so far in my life. So, therefore in my life all my road signs point to a place I can't see yet. But I know it's there because someone I trust told me so. Again, that's faith, but because of the source, I know that I can have that faith in God.

I don't know everything, but I try to trust the one I believe does.

You don't know everything either. I could even ask if you know half of everything, and you would probably tell me no. You couldn't know half of everything, just like I couldn't. But let's just say for the sake of discussion that you do know half of everything. But, alas, you still do not know everything, so I ask you. Is it possible that this Jesus/God/Heaven thing could exist on the other half of the stuff you haven't learned yet?

Again, not arguing. Just giving a new perspective, and I'm up for respectable conversations. I just have to exit when people get rude/angry or start barking back and forth. I've been through that, and it does no one any good. Not saying you planned on doing that. But that it has happened to me on this thread. =)

I know you said more in your original post, but I need to go milk the cat or something. =)

tfshirty said:

I am trying the Pirate Bay downloads you mentioned. My quicktime player couldn't play them. I would like to download from myspleen but I have no way of getting on there as you need an invitation.

 Download vlc player.

Last update was from over a year ago. 

Sometimes people get busy. I think we would all love to be paid to do this, bu until that happens, this will still be categorized as hobby. =-/

I'm afraid the project is dead. Bob, please prove me wrong.

Lowbacca said:

I would like to see a bad*** scene of Anakin showcasing his supreme mastery of the Force performing feats of incredible strength and finesse the likes of which the "prophecy" and the "one" should be capable of. I never saw that in the films. I did see it in the Clone Wars cartoon series, the original. Then a relatively short period after have him not necessarily turn to the dark side because of grief or hate so much as intellectually he finds it superior, as well as grief and hate. A dark Jedi, not necessarily a Sith. Then he is grossly disfigured and pledges allegiance to the Sith as a rash reaction sealing his fate. End scene.

 What, something wrong with Anakin just sitting and deciding to become dark jedi? Lucas knows what he's talking about. ;)

Google drive could work. It's a decent 15 gb's.

I'll see about locating my copy. I'll PM you when I find it.

TM, would you have a problem if I attempted to upload this somewhere?

Also, in response to the whole "real life" thing, in real life people don't use the force to gain inner wisdom, or have droids get them out of trash compactors they fell into while trying to rescue a princess. These are movies. 

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF! 

Jaitea said:

mrbenja0618 said:

sonofjones said:

Okay, first off, it's not even close to the same thing. The Man with no name was supposed to be nameless (and even then the good the bad and the ugly called him blondie), second Boba Fett is clearly supposed to have a name, but the movie fails to mention it at any point. It dosen't come off as them trying to add to a mysterious character so much as forgetting to mention his name. He's obviously meant to be named, but you have to have outside resources to actually know it.

 I think it's backwards. Boba Fett didn't need to be named. He needed to be the mysterious stranger, and if anything ROTJ screwed by naming him.

Not sure how it's obvious he should have been named either.

To me this is a non issue. No offense meant. Just my simple opinion.

 That scene wasn't too bad, Han was kinda blind at that stage & Chewie was keeping him right,......maybe the dialogue could have been "Who Chewie?....he's here?......where?"

J

 In don't hate the scene. I actually find it funny how he died. In fact, BECAUSE he dies in that "slipping on a banana peel" way he for sure should not have been named.